How to Use lowlife in a Sentence

lowlife

noun

• This high tech lowlife changed how a lot of people thought about the future.
  — Kevin Kelly and Paula Parisi, WIRED, 1 Feb. 1997
• No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
• Producing a weapon is usually enough to scare off your run-of-the-mill lowlife.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• There’s nothing more lowlife than lying to the elderly.
  — Hillary Busis, VanityFair.com, 17 Mar. 2017
• Truly Tainted is the lowlife deadbeat who took the fresh bouquet and replaced it with dead flowers.
  — Sainted & Tainted Writers, Twin Cities, 10 June 2017
• The lowlifes here at Kickin’ It Headquarters would rather argue about beer than politics.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 24 Mar. 2017
• Her killer, 34-year-old Alexander Bonds, was a lowlife and prison parolee with untreated mental illness.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• And probably in the jury that acquitted this lowlife...
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 4 May 2017
• Michael Cohen is, famously, a lowlife and screwball who’s made his living as an enforcer, liar and thug.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2019
• Artie’s spent his youth in a brothel getting punched by johns, training in martial arts, and running a small racket with his lowlife Londinium pals.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 12 May 2017
• Instead, many scary exploits are available (thanks in part to breaches at the NSA) to rogue nation states or ordinary lowlifes who purchase them on the Internet.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2017
• Set in an eastern district of Amman, the film follows a lowlife whose desire to run away with his respectable girlfriend leads him and others to make very foolish alliances.
  — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 18 Aug. 2021
• His bailiwick is seamy realism, walking the edge of soft-core as lowlife exploiter Larry Clark did with Kids, but never transcending it.
  — Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2021
• And there is teeming, glorious Tokyo, whose blossoming trees and lowlife nightclubs have been his most reliable muse.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
• But that need not extend into taking out frustrations on or being a lowlife towards the opposition.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2021
• What starts off feeling a little like a B-movie offering the inverse of Western romance in the company of losers and lowlifes quickly transforms into a road trip-cum-thriller defined by startling shifts and turns.
  — Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2018
• Guzman’s lawyers say the lowlife cooperators are lying in an attempt to frame him and get an easier sentence in their own drug-trafficking cases.
  — Claudia Torrens, The Seattle Times, 18 Dec. 2018
• What, with a lowlife portrait both funny and infuriating, and Benny Safdie makes Nick a hulking figure of heartbreaking pathos, with never a false moment.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2017
• Kids who went to play Tempest or Donkey Kong might end up seduced by lowlifes, spiraling into lives of substance abuse, sexual depravity and crime.
  — Michael Z. Newman, Smithsonian, 25 May 2017
• In such circumstances, the justifiably paranoid mind naturally believes this snippet of film, stolen at random by a lowlife pickpocket, could decide the fate of the planet.
  — Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
• Earnest, who was tied to a device that prevented him from turning to the audience, showed no visible reaction during the two-hour hearing as speakers called him a lowlife coward, an evil animal and a monster.
  — Elliot Spagat, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
• Earnest, who was tied to a device that prevented him from turning to the audience, showed no visible reaction during the two-hour hearing as speakers called him a lowlife coward, an evil animal and a monster.
  — Elliot Spagat, ajc, 1 Oct. 2021
• Earnest, who was tied to a device that prevented him from turning to the audience, showed no visible reaction during the two-hour hearing as speakers called him a lowlife coward, an evil animal, and a monster.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• Manfredi appears to have been more excited by Caravaggio’s native feeling for drama and lowlife subjects than by anything spiritual.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2020
• Wearing a costume reminiscent of the hallowed character Boba Fett (another bounty hunter from the planet Mandalore), the Mandalorian travels the galaxy looking for fugitives and lowlifes, hauling them in for justice and a paltry sum.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2019
• Baker is a convincing lowlife, his supporting cast is outstanding, and the composer Raffertie’s distorted electric guitar score brings an edgy energy.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024